#265

I just tried that method for turning off the plates myself and had the same experience as you–they’re back on after power cycling.

Also I’ve found that the aux out crossfade works just fine if I use an external CV instead of the onboard slider. Pushing the slider to the left and then sending a 0 - 5V offset sweeps the circuit through it’s full range as expected, so the crossfader itself seems to be fine, but the connection to the slider is somehow messed up.

#266

So my lubadh came a couple of days ago. And boy it’s an awesome module. Completely agree with @pelang it feels like an instrument. It seemed to me deceivingly simple, but it can get you very far :slight_smile:

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#267

Instruo got back to me and said that my module needs to be replaced. More issues popped up as well, like the whole unit freezing every hour or two, and the right deck appending new recordings onto old loops that were supposed to be erased. The bias screw for the output crossfader had no effect on the signal from the left deck.

Detroit Modular is going to send me a replacement as soon as they’re restocked. Which I hope is soon because I really love the sound and controls of the thing.

#268

I’m having to send my Arbhar back to them too :sleepy:

#269

I got lucky and Detroit Modular had an extra Lubadh they were holding for someone who ended up cancelling the order. So I got my replacement yesterday and I’m glad to say it’s working perfectly after installing the latest firmware. I’ve racked it in a small case with a fixed filterbank for now and I’m looking forward to finally making some usable recordings with it!

A side note for anyone curious, the Lubadh seems to do just fine boosting an external signal up to reasonable eurorack level. I’ve been sending audio from my phone straight into it and it sounds pretty good.

I have to give a shout out to Detroit Modular’s customer service, too. They called to let me know about the extra module and shipped it to me same day, before I’d even sent them the defective unit which they emailed me a shipping label for.

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#270

good to hear it worked out. I use the looper mostly with acoustic “instruments” and an external mic. For me it’s a very rewarding workflow.
Did you installed the 1.2.f version ?

Bastl Midilooper
#271

Yes, 1.2f. Are you still having issues with yours?

#272

Bastl has released a Midilooper which I find exciting.

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#273

ooooh yes, been waiting for this since I saw it. Se im a midiot - ive always steered as far away from it as I could, and now im finding ive made a very large mistake - I cant wait for this one

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#274

Looks like Boss has a new looper out (or at least coming) confusingly named RC-500.
On paper it seems like a pedal version of their RC-202 tabletop unit, with a few additions and some unexplainable omissions.
In general it looks pretty good, except for the weird choice to relegate the fx in a submenu, forcing you to use the encoder to turn them on an off. Not very playable. The rest is pretty much what you already find in the RC-202, but more geared towards footswitch interaction.
Loopop has it covered in detail:

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#275

boss keeps making strange choices w/ their loopers. I wish they would just get rid of the drum / rhythm tracks and focus on playability.

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#276

I’m 1:30 into the video and they’ve already said 2 things that excite me… the channels can be asynchronous and you can assign an IN/OUT to a particular channel (which is something I could never quite get to work the way I wanted it to on the Ditto X2)…

#277

Yes, definitely. I can see the use of a metronome for some cases, but for anything else you’d want a drum machine (or an actual drummer) anyway.
I also never liked how reverse was hidden in a menu on the RC-505. That’s something I use so much, having in a menu just doesn’t make sense.

That is definitely interesting indeed. The routing thing seems new to me btw.

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#278

c’mon marcus… you know exactly why those beatboxes are in there! :grinning: :v:

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#279

@taylor12k - I guess I just want them to break those canned beats into its own box… you know, like we’ve always dreamed about!
#grinzitup

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#280

Vaclav from Bastl Instruments looks at loopers of all sorts, from basic to more unusual varieties in rather a lot of interesting and inspirational detail here:

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#281

what a great tutorial. Really enjoying the English accent…

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#282

I can only now hear looper or filter as loopererr and filtererrr. There’s so many tricks I want to try with the Thyme after watching that. I’ve had one for years but haven’t really explored the albeit limited looping capabilities that much.

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#283

i’m quite interested in RC-500. To me the phantom power mic in is a big plus to me, most of the ‘lopper with mic in’ pedal in the market has no phantom power.

after watched the demonstration from looppop, i wonder if i can do the following routing:

In A > Out A only
patch the cable from Out A to In B
In B > Out B only

so I can take the Loop A, process it a bit and make new loop in Loop B, or use as a ‘insert’ function (insert would be useful for mic in).

read the manual, the In/Out Settings didn’t mention the actual options on that setting.

#284

I just did some experimenting with my RC-500 and figured out how to configure the pedal to do this:

  • input menu: mic in -> out-A
  • t1 menu: input -> mic; output -> out-A
  • t2 menu: input -> in-B; output -> out-B
  • memory menu: rec > quantize -> “measure” (makes the t2 recording start/stop at the right time)
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